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MARIVELES
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Founded as a pueblo by a Franciscan Friar in 1578, Mariveles, the "Village of Camaya" was part of the Corregimiento of Mariveles, including Bagac and Morong, Corregidor and Maragondon, Cavite.
The Superior Decree of July 1754 declared Mariveles' independence from Pampanga.
In the 19th century, the Americans established the first quarantine station in the old Spanish Leprosarium Hospital (now, the Mariveles Mental Ward).

Mariveles is located around the Mariveles Bay, a large cove at the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula. It is adjacent to Manila Bay to the east, and the South China Sea to the west. Mariveles Bay was the site of Mariveles Naval Section Base, completed for the United States Asiatic Fleet on 22 July 1941, and surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army on 9 April 1942.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariveles

SISIMAN

A quiet fishing village, Sisiman is rich in outdoor recreation opportunities. Visitors soak in rock pools at Sisiman Beach, while on sandy Agwawan Beach seashell collectors walk among fishing boats. The defunct San Miguel Lighthouse sits at the foot of San Miguel Peak, a mountain that offers hikers scenic views of Corregidor Island, Mount Mariveles, and Sisiman Bay.

DEATH MARCH

The death of Filipinos and American Prisoners of war from Mariveles and Bagac to camp O’Donnell, Capas, Tarlac. April 1942
Immediately after the Fall Of Bataan on April 9, 1942. The USFIP forces were evacuated by the Japanese from the field of battle as prisoners of war. The more than 70,000 Filipino and American troops who had survived the Battle Of Bataan underwent in this evacuation, the ordeal that history now knows as the Death March.
The Death March started from two points in Bataan: on April 10 from Mariveles; on April 11 from Bagac. The Filipino and American troops were marched day and night, under the blistering sun or cold night sky.
Already suffering from battle fatigue, the Filipino and American troops were strained to utter exhaustion by the long march on foot. Many ill, most were feverish, but none might rest for the enemy was brutal with those who lagged behind. Thousands fell along the way. Townspeople on the roadside risked their lives by slipping food and drink to the Death Marchers as they stumbled by.
In San Fernando, the Death March became a Death Ride by cargo train when the prisoners were packed so densely into boxcars that many of them perished from suffocation. Those who arrived alive in Capas had still to walk the last and most agonized miles of the Death March to Camp O’Donnell which was to become one of the most hellish concentration camps of World War II.